7 thoughts on “Arturo Sandus 8: To The Stars is now out!”
I just finished Arturo 8. Another great well written book. I enjoyed the steps into the future though the character adjustments while necessary are saddening. Thanks for writing the series and who knows someday more may arrive.
I just finished “To the Stars” thinking that it would be a closing book of series, but no – obviously there is at least one more book to come. As much as I enjoyed the series, I think waiting until 2024 is a bit too long. The Roman Empire building is done – perhaps it’s really the time to make the next book to be the last one?
well To the Stars is the end of Arturo’s involvement with the Romans. It is not the last time Arturo will appear but that is a fair way off. There is another Roman book coming at some point – mostly involving Arturo’s son – at this stage – subject to change without notice 🙂
But so fat it consists of a whole 76 words……
Those Romans also appear in another series that runs to 5 books so far – none of which have been published – That series is about a multi-dimensional wizard who visits that Roman Earth in the mid 2020s
The problem is I just can’t create story ideas- they appear in my head and I go from there. Trying to create a story involves sitting in front of a computer and writing very little. Getting an idea and putting on paper (so to speak) goes much better.
I have currently 30 unfinished stories. Some are a few lines like the next Roman book – others are half written novels – The New Federation book 1 (title subject to change) runs to 44,000 words already as I’ve ideas and scenes come to me and I get words down and then link them together.
The next book is Kyron the Swordsman, followed by The Princess and the Travellers (Gabinus) and then Taroniah at Peace and then Kyron the Mercenary followed by The New Federation
beyond that probably the next Taroniah book
Its just the way I work – I have the whole Taroniah/Kyron cycle in my head – at least as far as taroniah is going to go here and do that and Kyron will do this and go there and so on until they combine to confront the Mad Gog of Magic
Beyond that I have nothing yet.
Other stories I have not gotten so far – but others I have – Arturo was always going to appear in the 2nd book of the New Federation – indeed, to some extent, the whole first book was just to set up the arrival of Arturo in his clunky shuttle
Keep in mind the time involved as well – a full 120k novel takes me 12 weeks or so for the first draft – a month for my first edit – a month (with some overlap) for the editor – a month (with some overlap) for my final read through – so between 18-20 months from woe to go. So I am always writing a long way ahead. Taroniah at war was released on the weekend and I’m still writing Kyron so it won’t even get my first re-read before the end of next week – so it will be 8 weeks or so from that point before it goes to print.
Obviously if I have part of a book written it speeds the process up – it just takes time…..
I hope that answers your question –
My sincere apologies for such a late response! Thank you for your answer – 30 stories in concurrent workstreams! Now I understand your creative process better – but still would like to see the conclusion to adventures of Arturo and other Romans who attempted to join him in space sooner rather than later… Well, I’ll try to be patient and I look forward to read other stories of yours.
Thanks for writing great books for us!
Kyron the Mercenary should be out (finally!) this week. The next book will be The Taxon War (New Federation 1- which is not Arturo’s Federation) Then Taroniah Takes Control – Kyron the Magician and then…. well maybe New Federation 2 – The Harrecan War or maybe Princes 5 – The Princess and the Spy – depends a little on how the sales of Taxon War go….
oh – and the point of all that – Arturo resurfaces in The Harrecan War….
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I just finished Arturo 8. Another great well written book. I enjoyed the steps into the future though the character adjustments while necessary are saddening. Thanks for writing the series and who knows someday more may arrive.
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Thanks for the kind words.
Arturo will be back but not with his Romans – probably around the middle of 2024….. !
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Glad to hear it. I will look forward to it.
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I just finished “To the Stars” thinking that it would be a closing book of series, but no – obviously there is at least one more book to come. As much as I enjoyed the series, I think waiting until 2024 is a bit too long. The Roman Empire building is done – perhaps it’s really the time to make the next book to be the last one?
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well To the Stars is the end of Arturo’s involvement with the Romans. It is not the last time Arturo will appear but that is a fair way off. There is another Roman book coming at some point – mostly involving Arturo’s son – at this stage – subject to change without notice 🙂
But so fat it consists of a whole 76 words……
Those Romans also appear in another series that runs to 5 books so far – none of which have been published – That series is about a multi-dimensional wizard who visits that Roman Earth in the mid 2020s
The problem is I just can’t create story ideas- they appear in my head and I go from there. Trying to create a story involves sitting in front of a computer and writing very little. Getting an idea and putting on paper (so to speak) goes much better.
I have currently 30 unfinished stories. Some are a few lines like the next Roman book – others are half written novels – The New Federation book 1 (title subject to change) runs to 44,000 words already as I’ve ideas and scenes come to me and I get words down and then link them together.
The next book is Kyron the Swordsman, followed by The Princess and the Travellers (Gabinus) and then Taroniah at Peace and then Kyron the Mercenary followed by The New Federation
beyond that probably the next Taroniah book
Its just the way I work – I have the whole Taroniah/Kyron cycle in my head – at least as far as taroniah is going to go here and do that and Kyron will do this and go there and so on until they combine to confront the Mad Gog of Magic
Beyond that I have nothing yet.
Other stories I have not gotten so far – but others I have – Arturo was always going to appear in the 2nd book of the New Federation – indeed, to some extent, the whole first book was just to set up the arrival of Arturo in his clunky shuttle
Keep in mind the time involved as well – a full 120k novel takes me 12 weeks or so for the first draft – a month for my first edit – a month (with some overlap) for the editor – a month (with some overlap) for my final read through – so between 18-20 months from woe to go. So I am always writing a long way ahead. Taroniah at war was released on the weekend and I’m still writing Kyron so it won’t even get my first re-read before the end of next week – so it will be 8 weeks or so from that point before it goes to print.
Obviously if I have part of a book written it speeds the process up – it just takes time…..
I hope that answers your question –
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My sincere apologies for such a late response! Thank you for your answer – 30 stories in concurrent workstreams! Now I understand your creative process better – but still would like to see the conclusion to adventures of Arturo and other Romans who attempted to join him in space sooner rather than later… Well, I’ll try to be patient and I look forward to read other stories of yours.
Thanks for writing great books for us!
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Kyron the Mercenary should be out (finally!) this week. The next book will be The Taxon War (New Federation 1- which is not Arturo’s Federation) Then Taroniah Takes Control – Kyron the Magician and then…. well maybe New Federation 2 – The Harrecan War or maybe Princes 5 – The Princess and the Spy – depends a little on how the sales of Taxon War go….
oh – and the point of all that – Arturo resurfaces in The Harrecan War….
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